#providence

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. ↗

— William Ames

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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence. ↗

— Norman Lamm

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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

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Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. ↗

— James K. Polk

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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. ↗

— Max Frisch

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Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. ↗

— Horace Porter

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